Except anyone can buy Vista Ultimate at OEM Prices. Which as of last year was $179, XP Pro/MediaCenter was $130ish. MS OEM removes all standard support MS offers. Unlike the Retail, Apple could adopt such a policy, of Sure you buy it, but your on your own, We supply the standard updates and fixes, but You want support, Your on your own.
Actually Price wouldn't go up much, If you have more users of the OS, then Keeping the Price at $130 (just a guess) means more sales at that price. The OS generates more Revenue. Yes it will mess with their overall PRicing structure, but Apple has a way to work out subsidy Deals, Look at iPhone with ATT. Besides the Average Public isn't going to go out and purchase a "Mac Clone" I did support on them back in the day for an ISP, Apple can wipe their hands clean of most problems. Avg. Joe wants a computer they go to Dell, HP, Apple to get a complete package and 1 number to call if they have any problems. Unless they have someone like "Us" to call to come look at the problem before.
Having worked up through the ISP industry to the Telcom world. Yes, Comcast should be allowed to throttle their network to keep it going. Just as any other company has the "right" to. However if Comcast, they provide me Access, Was to limit my connection to where I can go or see. I would drop them immediately and pick up DSL, If ATT does the same then I go back to dialup. When more and more people leave to go elsewhere the model changes. This is what did AOL in back in the day. People got wise to AOL network and the rest of the world. The Network has a way to work itself out. If comcast limits their backbone service then you will see peerings show up with other companies and Comcast start to loose that way.
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Except anyone can buy Vista Ultimate at OEM Prices. Which as of last year was $179, XP Pro/MediaCenter was $130ish. MS OEM removes all standard support MS offers. Unlike the Retail, Apple could adopt such a policy, of Sure you buy it, but your on your own, We supply the standard updates and fixes, but You want support, Your on your own.
Actually Price wouldn't go up much, If you have more users of the OS, then Keeping the Price at $130 (just a guess) means more sales at that price. The OS generates more Revenue. Yes it will mess with their overall PRicing structure, but Apple has a way to work out subsidy Deals, Look at iPhone with ATT. Besides the Average Public isn't going to go out and purchase a "Mac Clone" I did support on them back in the day for an ISP, Apple can wipe their hands clean of most problems. Avg. Joe wants a computer they go to Dell, HP, Apple to get a complete package and 1 number to call if they have any problems. Unless they have someone like "Us" to call to come look at the problem before.
Having worked up through the ISP industry to the Telcom world. Yes, Comcast should be allowed to throttle their network to keep it going. Just as any other company has the "right" to. However if Comcast, they provide me Access, Was to limit my connection to where I can go or see. I would drop them immediately and pick up DSL, If ATT does the same then I go back to dialup. When more and more people leave to go elsewhere the model changes. This is what did AOL in back in the day. People got wise to AOL network and the rest of the world. The Network has a way to work itself out. If comcast limits their backbone service then you will see peerings show up with other companies and Comcast start to loose that way.